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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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9 words match “CASHIER”

CASHIER v. 3 definitions
ismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of frust. They have cashiered several of their followers. Addison. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.
CASHIER'S CHECK n.
A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.
CASHIERER n.
One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [R.] Burke.
BANIAN n.
A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. [Written also banyan.]
BREAK v.
To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. I see a great officer broken. Swift.
CASH n.
il stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.] -- Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; -- c…
CAST v.
To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.] The state can not with safety casthim.
INCAPABLE a.
As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.
PURSER n.
Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier. Purser's name (Naut.), a false name. [Slang]